Ashford Castle; Ashford In The Water (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Ashford In The Water.
In the historic county of Derbyshire.
Modern Authority of Derbyshire.
1974 county of Derbyshire.
Medieval County of Derbyshire.

OS Map Grid Reference: SK19536980
Latitude 53.22489° Longitude -1.70892°

Ashford Castle; Ashford In The Water has been described as a probable Fortified Manor House.

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains.

Description

Homestead moat, probably associated with the fortified house of the Nevilles (1408-1550). The site is tradionally that of Ashford Castle but there is no evidence to substantiate or refute this assertion. (PastScape)

N.N.E. of Ashford Church are the foundations of the mansion granted in 1319 to Edmund Plantagenet, Earl of Kent (Bagshaw). The small moat at the back of the Bull's Head Inn is traditionally the site of Ashford Castle. (Listed under 'Castle Mounds with Attached Courts') (VCH). The so-called moat was, judging from the earth bank remaining, simply the site of the old foundations of a small house of the Nevilles (1408-1550), who built a fortified residence north of Ashford church (Norman). A homestead moat in fair condition but now being infilled by the R.D.C. (Field Investigators Comments-F1 FDC 08-JUN-66). (PastScape)

Sources of information, references and further reading

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 308447.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) 421.

Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 29 (slight)
  Craven, Maxwell and Stanley, Michael, 2001, The Derbyshire Country House (Landmark Publishing) Vol. 1 p. 29-30
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 110 (possible)
  Hart, C.R. 1981, The North Derbyshire Archaeological Survey to AD 1500 (Chesterfield: Derbyshire Archaeological Trust) p. 149-50
  Norman, J., 1961, Ashford in the Water and its church (Ashrford)
  Cox, J.C., 1905, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Derbyshire Vol. 1 p. 375-6 online copy
  Bagshaw, S., 1846, History, Gazetteer & Directory of Derbyshire with Burton on Trent p. 420 online copy
Periodical Articles
- 1977, CBA Group 8: West Midlands newsletter Vol. 20 p. 92
  Dr. Brushfield, 1900, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol. 6 p. 283 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 330 online copy

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